Glock 23 / S&W 37

[DARE]

Live in Texas and have had a concealed carry license for a number of years.
Now with constitutional carry in many states plus reciprocal agreements have decided to carry everyday.
Looking for something easy. Started carrying the Model 37 in a front pocket of my jeans. Worked pretty well. Lately have been carrying the Glock 23 stuck in the back of my belt over my kidney. Bigger caliber and more rounds.
When I don't wear my shirt tail out have gone back to the Model 37 in a front pocket.

 

[Outpost75]

The Model 37 makes a nice lightweight carry. Mine has the 3-inch barrel and gets fed a steady diet of wadcutter. No +P. Full length ejector rod is a big plus. Will fit in strong side front hip pocket of Duluth chinos with Mika pocket holster.

 

[DirtyShirt]

Lately have been carrying the Glock 23 stuck in the back of my belt over my kidney.

Is that a figure of speech or do you just stick your Glock 23 in the back of your belt without a holster?

 

[Gun Relics]

So I decided to apply for a CCW but don't plan to carry. I mainly want to have the gun available in the car on road trips and in CA if you don't have the permit you have to keep the gun locked and not hidden to be legal. I didn't want any legal troubles because I have an FFL and would lose it on a firearms violation. The area we live in is low crime but on the road we could be targeted.

Getting a CCW permit in CA is fun. Sheriff's office interview, live fingerprints and a phone interview with three people who are close to you including your spouse. The biggie is a 16 hour course. Yes, that's right - two 8 hour days. The course covers legal aspects and live fire safety and proficiency. We had to land a high percentage of shots in the kill zone areas from various distances with the firearm we want to conceal in a timed test. You can only have 2 guns on your permit and you can only legally carry those two. They also did off hand shooting drills, shooting walking forward and backward, and shots fired from chest level with the gun pulled back (simulating close range to prevent the attacker from disabling your firearm slide or hammer). These were mot qualifying tests.

What I want to conceal is a 2" Air lite Ti 342, 5 shot 38 + P. It only weighs 12 ounces. I didn't want to take a shooting proficiency test with a 2 inch DA-only so they let me use a Model 19-2 4". I had not shot it befoe the test. In fact, these were the first revolvers I had shot in 40 years. My other shooting is with semi auto, but I don't want to carry them. In CA you have to qualify with a similar gun type, revolver to revolver or semi-auto to semi-auto.

It was no problem with the 19 and I qualified right away with 38 specials. I shot DA short range and speed fire and single action for the longer distances. I'm also setting up my 19-2 for concealed but I'm changing the grips. So I'll have two guns in the car, the 19 permanently hidden in a locked trunk safe and the 342 accessible or on me, front pocket.

Next is the Sheriff live interview in a few weeks then I should have the permit shortly after that.

 

[DARE]

Do not use a holster with either gun. Perhaps I should have said in my belt. Carry the gun in my waistband over my kidney. The belt keeps it in place.

 

[Gun Relics]

Do not use a holster with either gun. Perhaps I should have said in my belt. Carry the gun in my waistband over my kidney. The belt keeps it in place.

I like the pocket holster with a revolver because it hides the outline of the gun. It looks like a wallet in your front pocket. Also, since the holster covers the trigger area, there is a marginally slimmer chance of accidental discharge due to lifting the gun out by the trigger. I don't want to print because carry here is not as common and some people freak out and call the police if they see a gun. Our instructor said a lot of people here call the police on armed off duty law enforcement officers.

By the way, out of 8 people in the class, I was the only one with a revolver. When I checked in, the instructor announced "There's the revolver guy!".

 

[Puller]

I am a big Glock fan, been carrying one for years. Would never carry one without a holster, in fact, I wouldn't carry any gun "just in my belt." But that's just me.

 

[DARE]

In Texas if you qualify with a revolver you cannot carry an autoloader. If you qualify with the autoloader you can carry either. When I first took my instructor course you were required to qualify with both.

 

[Gun Relics]

I am a big Glock fan, been carrying one for years. Would never carry one without a holster, in fact, I wouldn't carry any gun "just in my belt." But that's just me.

I have been out of touch with guns and concealed carry for 40 years. Our instructor was a deputy sheriff for 30 years and like most LE, he carries 24/7. One point of contention I had but did not express was that he carried his semi-auto chambered and ready to fire with no safety on. He said some autoloaders don't even have a safety.

I can maybe see it with a DA autoloader, maybe that's what he was talking about?

I had never heard of such a thing as walking around cocked and safety-off and I can't imagine someone doing that. All it would take would be a shirt tail catching the trigger and you have one extra hole in your leg or no need for a vasectomy!

 

[Gun Relics]

In Texas if you qualify with a revolver you cannot carry an autoloader. If you qualify with the autoloader you can carry either. When I first took my instructor course you were required to qualify with both.

I can see that. Revolvers are pretty straight forward. You need to understand an autoloader to safely handle it.

 

[rockquarry]

Do not use a holster with either gun. Perhaps I should have said in my belt. Carry the gun in my waistband over my kidney. The belt keeps it in place.

I wouldn't carry a striker gun in any manner, but waistband belt carry is a great way to carry a revolver, at least it used to be for me. Nowadays my revolver is carried in my car console.